Feral

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Feral \Fe"ral\, a. [L. feralis, belonging to the dead.]
     Funereal; deadly; fatal; dangerous. [R.] "Feral accidents."
     --Burton.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  feral \fe"ral\, a. [L. ferus. See {Fierce}.] (Bot. & Zool.)
     Wild; untamed; ferine; not domesticated; -- said of beasts,
     birds, and plants.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  feral
       adj : wild and menacing; "a ferocious dog" [syn: {ferine}, {savage}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  130 Moby Thesaurus words for "feral":
     Draconian, Tartarean, abandoned, amok, animal, anthropophagous,
     atrocious, baneful, barbaric, barbarous, beastly, bellowing,
     berserk, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, brutal,
     brutalized, brute, brutish, cannibalistic, carried away, cinerary,
     cruel, cruel-hearted, deadly, death-bringing, deathful, deathly,
     delirious, demoniac, demoniacal, destructive, devilish, diabolic,
     dirgelike, dismal, distracted, ecstatic, enraptured, epitaphic,
     exequial, fatal, fell, ferine, ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike,
     fierce, frantic, frenzied, fulminating, funebrial, funebrious,
     funebrous, funeral, funerary, funereal, furious, haggard, hellish,
     hog-wild, howling, hysterical, in a transport, in hysterics,
     infernal, inhuman, inhumane, internecine, intoxicated, kill-crazy,
     killing, lethal, mad, madding, malign, malignant, maniac,
     merciless, mortal, mortuary, mournful, murderous, necrological,
     noncivilized, obituary, obsequial, orgasmic, orgiastic, pernicious,
     pitiless, possessed, rabid, raging, ramping, ranting, raving,
     ravished, roaring, running mad, ruthless, sadistic, sanguinary,
     sanguineous, satanic, savage, sepulchral, sharkish, slavering,
     storming, subhuman, swinish, tameless, transported, truculent,
     unchristian, uncivilized, uncontrollable, ungentle, unhuman,
     untamed, vicious, violent, virulent, wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking,
     wolfish